How fortunate are we! Fortune refers to He has no part in the G-d of Israel. How can one have a part in G-d? What is a portion?

The ultimate purpose of this world, to acquire as many commandments.

The soul is one with G-d. The study of Torah with intense emotions is the way to reconnect.

Having gone through the process of lower-level Teshuvah authentically (through the process elaborated in previous chapters—rectifying the interruption of one’s divine connection, thus raising the the lower hey back to its Source etc.), one is now in a position to experience higher-level Teshuvah—a re-union of soul with G-d, through Torah.

Having reflected on one’s sins’ effect thoroughly, one can truly arouse mercy from G-d’s 13 Compassionate Attributes. This brings cleansing and returns the Soul (‘Hey’) to its Source, completing Lower-Level Teshuvah. Now, the returnee is in a position to experience Higher-Level Teshuvah: a reunion of spirit with G-d (through Torah).

Having reflected on one’s sins’ effect thoroughly, one can truly arouse mercy from G-d’s 13 Compassionate Attributes. This brings cleansing and returns the Soul (‘Hey’) to its Source, completing Lower-Level Teshuvah. Now, the returnee is in a position to experience Higher-Level Teshuvah: a reunion of spirit with G-d (through Torah).

Just as many layers of thin material serve to block out light, equivalent to one or two thicker ones, so can multiple ‘lighter’ sins have the same accumulative effect as a few grave ones.

Achieving a broken heart & humbled spirit is through a daily deep reflection on the degradation of the Divine (soul), caused by one’s sins .

There are two ways to repair the soul G-d connection. One is by arousing a true sense of compassion for the exiled G-d parts inside of himself. The other is by breaking the evil powers by ways of a broken heart.

The metaphor of a rope, attached with the final Hey of Hashem's name on rope, to the soul below is used to explain our connection to G-d. When sin severs the strings of the rope, the soul attaches to the forces of evil. Therefore, when one repents, they are reconnecting the final Hey of Hashem, to the original soul integral connection.

Now, during exile, our life force is often channeled through evil. Our choices dictate the source of our vitality.

We are mostly rooted in the final Hey of Hashem's name. While we contain all of the G-dly attributes, being that it is expressed to us through G-d's speech, therefore we are most closely connected to the final Hey. While all of creation emanates from the words of Hashem, a more external form of speech, however, the soul of a Jew emanates from the breath of Hashem. While words can permeate a partition, breath can not. The only separation that impacts the integral Jew-G-d connection is sin.

Because our souls are rooted in the name of G-d HVYH, our souls also have these functions in them. The Yud- is the subconscious intellect, the Hey- is the conscious intellect, the vav- is our emotions, and the final Hey- is our expressive capacities.

The letter Yud represents the Supernal wisdom, and the Hey represents G-d's intellect as it broadens and deepens. The Vav represents descent, as He extends Himself downwards. The Second Hey represents royalty, the element of speech and revelation. The Hey is the source of all sounds in speech.

Repentance is understood when we understand the uniqueness of a soul.

Looking into repentance through the esoteric lens now: The essence of repentance is the returning of the soul to closeness with the divine. The letter Hey is defiled in both G-d's name and the one in the name of the soul.

While a person can replace fasts with charity, fasting is also extremely valuable. One can also fast half days or during winter days.

To be able to attain the same loving relationship as before the sin, one should fast. However, weakening the body beyond its ability is a sin. Therefore it is recommended to give Tzedakkah in lieu of fasting.

Fasting is lie an appeasement gift as an Olah offering. The Arizal, a Preeminent Kabbalist recommended prescribed post atonement fasts.

Fasting is not a requirement of repentance to achieve atonement. It is however a means of getting closer to G-d.

Repentance means leaving the sin. Step 1: Full regret Step 2: Leaving that action, Step 3: Commit to never do it again Step 4: Admit verbally. The Rebbe discusses the value or purpose of fasting

This begins the third section of Tanya, Igeret HaTeshuvah. Similar to a marriage that goes bad, there's room to return and become close again. Today's portion explores a quote from the Talmud related to Teshuvah, repentance.

The transmuted letters of creation can be compared to the light of the moon as it is a reflection of the sun.

G-d, creating through the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, meaning via these unique powers, which in turn transform in position in the word combination, mutate numerically or in other etymological directions, creating other related and non related realities within the same word subset.